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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The ‘elective reform plan’ clearly indicates that #NHS #privatisation and general deterioration will continue under this current iteration of government, writes James Linney.
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Where the Tories left off
The ‘elective reform plan’ clearly indicates that NHS privatisation and general deterioration will continue under this current iteration of government, writes James Linney
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
What’s the big deal about Greenland? Paul Demarty examines Donald Trump’s promised new wave of American continental colonial expansion.
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Rise of lifeboat imperialism
What’s the big deal about Greenland? Paul Demarty examines Donald Trump’s promised new wave of American continental colonial expansion
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Danny Hammill argues that the LA wildfires have been made hellishly worse by urban sprawl, budget cuts and, most of all, global warming.
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Atmospheric blow-dryer
Danny Hammill argues that the LA wildfires have been made hellishly worse by urban sprawl, budget cuts and, most of all, global warming
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Last year was the hottest ever recorded and deadly heat looks like our future, writes Eddie Ford - even if we overcome capitalism.
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Decade of disaster
Last year was the hottest ever recorded and deadly heat looks like our future, writes Eddie Ford - even if we overcome capitalism
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Winter Communist University starts today at 5pm! Please note the timings given in the Weekly Worker are incorrect for tomorrow's sessions. Register here: communistparty.co.uk/cu
Friday 5pm: War is the continuation of politics by other means: Mike Macnair.
Saturday 11am: Israel's war-mongering and how to respond: Moshé Machover and Yassamine Mather
Saturday 4pm: Workers' militia, people's militia, weapons of peace: Jack Conrad
Sunday 11am: AUKUS and the coming war with China: Marcus Strom
Sunday 4pm: Revolutionary defeatism: Lars T Lih
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Collective is pursuing Corbynism without Corbyn - it all looks very unpromising and very undemocratic … especially if the SWP tries to jump on board, says Carla Roberts.
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New year, new left party?
Collective is pursuing Corbynism without Corbyn - it all looks very unpromising and very undemocratic … especially if the SWP tries to jump on board, says Carla Roberts
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Archie Woodrow is quite good on identifying the left’s problems, less good when it comes to giving answers. Mike Macnair continues his series of articles on the ‘party discussion’.
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What sort of partyism?
Archie Woodrow is quite good on identifying the left’s problems, less good when it comes to giving answers. Mike Macnair continues his series of articles on the ‘party discussion’
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A proposal from the TAS steering group issued on January 4 2025.
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Forging communist unity
A proposal from the TAS steering group issued on January 4 2025
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We need to unite, not when it comes to the long term, but in the here and now and in a disciplined, principled, programmatically anchored organisation. Jack Conrad reports on some recent meetings and developments.
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It’s good to do more than talk
We need to unite, not when it comes to the long term, but in the here and now and in a disciplined, principled, programmatically anchored organisation. Jack Conrad reports on some recent meetings and ...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The ‘axis of resistance’ has come apart. Israel is brimming with confidence and is just itching to attack. Yassamine Mather looks over the wreckage and criticises the failures of the Iranian left.
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Mounting dangers and fears
The ‘axis of resistance’ has come apart. Israel is brimming with confidence and is just itching to attack. Yassamine Mather looks over the wreckage and criticises the failures of the Iranian left
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Putting faith in the ‘axis of resistance’ and Netanyahu’s legal troubles was always woefully misplaced. The Zionist state is backed to the hilt by the global hegemon. Moshé Machover spoke to the January 5 CPGB members’ aggregate.
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Redrawing the map
Putting faith in the ‘axis of resistance’ and Netanyahu’s legal troubles was always woefully misplaced. The Zionist state is backed to the hilt by the global hegemon. Moshé Machover spoke to the Janua...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Esen Uslu takes down Erdoğan’s fantasy that, after successfully backing HTS, he can determine the future of the region.
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Hitting the jackpot?
Esen Uslu takes down Erdoğan’s fantasy that, after successfully backing HTS, he can determine the future of the region
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
What on earth is he up to? Paul Demarty investigates the life and times of a half-mad billionaire.
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Rockets and ressentiment
What on earth is he up to? Paul Demarty investigates the life and times of a half-mad billionaire
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
One poll has Reform UK ahead of Labour, writes Eddie Ford, with talk of Elon Musk giving $100 million to the party in a bid to make Nigel Farage Britain’s Trump
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Blowing in the wind
One poll has Reform UK ahead of Labour, writes Eddie Ford, with talk of Elon Musk giving $100 million to the party in a bid to make Nigel Farage Britain’s Trump
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A collision of two worlds: on the one side, the dingy, foggy London in cold midwinter, and on the other, a fantastical world peopled by spirits. Paul Demarty, in an unusually cheerful mood, revisits Charles Dickens’ A Christmas carol.
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The festive utopia
A collision of two worlds: on the one side, the dingy, foggy London in cold midwinter, and on the other, a fantastical world peopled by spirits. Paul Demarty, in an unusually cheerful mood, revisits C...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Ideas that party building can be skipped, that programmatic differences ought to be avoided, that there should be bureaucratic restrictions on polemics are all roads to nowhere. In the second part of his discussion Mike Macnair focuses on a group of rs21 members and Joe Todd’s recent contributions.
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What sort of Partyism?
Ideas that party building can be skipped, that programmatic differences ought to be avoided, that there should be bureaucratic restrictions on polemics - all are roads to nowhere. In the second part o...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Killing of UnitedHealth boss has been the cause of widespread celebration. However, Australian communist Martin Greenfield argues that CEOs should be made to fear not the bullet, but working class collective power.
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Organisation, not assassination
Killing of UnitedHealth boss has been the cause of widespread celebration. However, Australian communist Martin Greenfield argues that CEOs should be made to fear not the bullet, but working class col...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Iran and the Axis of Resistance have suffered yet another defeat. Yassamine Mather looks at the background and assesses the likely consequences of the fall of the House of Assad
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Deserted by friends of convenience
Iran and the Axis of Resistance have suffered yet another defeat. Yassamine Mather looks at the background and assesses the likely consequences of the fall of the House of Assad
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Prometheus Magazine @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
In the next article of our "What is the Party?" series, Ansell Eade argues that the road towards a mass communist party is through an electoral alliance. prometheusjournal.org/2024/12/11/o...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The new regime in Damascus is being widely celebrated, but continued internal power struggles and regional rivalries are likely to unleash yet more conflict and suffering, says Esen Uslu
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Changing balance of forces
The new regime in Damascus is being widely celebrated, but continued internal power struggles and regional rivalries are likely to unleash yet more conflict and suffering, says Esen Uslu
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
What is the meaning of Christmas? Who is Father Christmas? What is the political economy of his Christmas operation? Jack Conrad provides some answers, but, above all, welcomes elvish resistance
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Slave to the gift economy
What is the meaning of Christmas? Who is Father Christmas? What is the political economy of his Christmas operation? Jack Conrad provides some answers, but, above all, welcomes elvish resistance
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
America and its arrogant bullying is much resented. But, asks Yassamine Mather, does the expanding Brics alliance represent a viable alternative?
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An acronym versus the hegemon
America and its arrogant bullying is much resented. But, asks Yassamine Mather, does the expanding Brics alliance represent a viable alternative?
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Zelensky lost no time in using Atacms and Storm Shadows. In response, Putin changed Russia’s nuclear doctrine and issued orders for an intermediate-range ballistic missile strike. Jack Conrad assesses the growing dangers of walking towards the nuclear abyss
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Notes on the war
Volodymyr Zelensky lost no time in using Atacms and Storm Shadows. In response, Putin changed Russia’s nuclear doctrine and issued orders for an intermediate-range ballistic missile strike. Jack Conra...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Physical and mental health is central to the communist project. Not only would people be healthier in a communist society, writes Ian Spencer, but such health would help deliver the full realisation of human potential
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Your health, comrade
Physical and mental health is central to the communist project. Not only would people be healthier in a communist society, writes Ian Spencer, but such health would help deliver the full realisation o...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
After 14 years of Tory austerity the health service has been left broken. But can Wes Streeting fix things? James Linney lambasts his idea that league tables are part of the solution weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1517/...
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Continuing the decline
After 14 years of Tory austerity the health service has been left broken. But can Wes Streeting fix things? James Linney lambasts his idea that league tables are part of the solution
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Erdoğan speaks fire and fury. Meanwhile, despite the sanctions, it is business as usual. Esen Uslu looks at the relationship between Turkey and Israel weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1517/...
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Hypocrisy in action
Erdoğan speaks fire and fury. Meanwhile, despite the sanctions, it is business as usual. Esen Uslu looks at the relationship between Turkey and Israel
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
America does not consider itself bound by the ‘law governed world order’. Mike Macnair gives the background to the denunciations of the International Criminal Court’s warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1517/...
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Grand imperial claims
America does not consider itself bound by the ‘law governed world order’. Mike Macnair gives the background to the denunciations of the International Criminal Court’s warrants against Benjamin Netanya...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
An overview of Weekly Worker 1517 www.youtube.com/watch?v=35lJ...
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WW 1517
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Justine Welby is going, but we need to see the back of the CofE as the state religion too. Jack Conrad takes to task SWP opportunism and makes the case for treating everyone - the religious and the non-religious - equally weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1516/...
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State and secularism
Justine Welby is going, but we need to see the back of the Church of England as the state religion too. Jack Conrad takes to task SWP opportunism and makes the case for treating everyone - the religio...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Warmongers, kleptocrats, sex pests - but above all cronies. Paul Demarty looks ahead to an already fractious Trump front bench that will, in all probability, churn with remarkable speed weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1516/...
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Cabinet of curiosities
Warmongers, kleptocrats, sex pests - but above all cronies. Paul Demarty looks ahead to an already fractious Trump front bench that will, in all probability, churn with remarkable speed
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Setting up yet another loose network, a broad left alliance or a confessional sect would obviously be pointless. Mike Macnair responds to an invitation to discuss what is the main question before us today weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1516/...
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What sort of party?
Setting up yet another loose network, a broad left alliance or a confessional sect would obviously be pointless. Mike Macnair responds to an invitation to discuss what is the main question before us t...
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Yassamine Mather recalls her time in Kurdistan and the courage and determination, as well as the failings, of the militant Fedai opponents of the Islamic Republic weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1516/...
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From Glasgow to Baghche
Yassamine Mather recalls her time in Kurdistan and the courage and determination, as well as the failings, of the militant Fedai opponents of the Islamic Republic
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Weekly Worker @weeklyworker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
With a February 23 general election agreed, German society is set to move right, reports Carla Roberts weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1516/...
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An unpalatable choice
With a February 23 general election agreed, German society is set to move right, reports Carla Roberts
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